multi-day
Indigenous Reading Series
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
The Indigenous Reading Series is a new MSA program that centers Indigenous thinking and perspectives through reading and discussion. Each...
Past Events
multi-day
Multiple Battlefield Cinema
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM
This workshop, entitled Battlefield Cinema, brings together filmmakers, scholars, and Indigenous Peoples whose goal is to explore how community-engaged and...
multi-day
Thinking Andean Studies Conference
8:30 AM - 6:00 PM
The Thinking Andean Studies Conference is an interdisciplinary event that showcases the increasing number of scholars conducting research in and...
multi-day
Thinking Andean Studies Conference
12:00 PM - 9:30 PM
The Thinking Andean Studies Conference is an interdisciplinary event that showcases the increasing number of scholars conducting research in and...
multi-day
Skin(s) - Performance by Rosy Simas Danse
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Skin(s) shares the beauty and diversity of how Native people identify and examine the contradictions, pride, joy, pain, and sorrow...
multi-day
If You Remember, I’ll Remember
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
If You Remember, I’ll Remember is an invitation to reflect on the past while contemplating the present through works of...
Oct
15
2020
Tiara Roxanne and Risa Puleo to Creative/Critical Studies
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
The CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text virtual seminar series continues with a performance featuring the indigenous cyberfeminst,...
Oct
9
2020
CNAIR Virtual Brownbag Discussion with Caroline Egan
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) is delighted to present the 2020 Brown Bag Series. These talks...
Oct
7
2020
Racial Disparity in Arrests Increases as Crime Rates Decline
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Between 1999 and 2015, while crime rates generally declined, racial disparity in arrests increased substantially. Sociology Professor Beth Redbird and...
Sep
25
2020
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Reception
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Meet new faculty, staff, and students and hear about upcoming initiatives. Drop in at any time between 12-1:30pm via Zoom!...
May
29
2020
CNAIR 2019-2020 Symposium
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
CNAIR 2019-2020 Fellows Virtual Research Talks Friday, May 29, 12-1:30 PM Please join CNAIR for virtual research talks by our faculty, graduate,...
Apr
23
2020
Tommy Orange Book Discussion and Signing
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
EVENT POSTPONED details to follow soon April 23, 2020 Doors Open 5:30 pm Event Start 6:30 pm Book Signing 7:30 pm RSVP and ticketing: https://tinyurl.com/vyna3fb SIgn-up for...
Mar
4
2020
Decolonizing Healthcare
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Decolonizing Healthcare: An Indigenous perspective on affirming healthcare for Two Spirit and Transgender communities Description: Culturally informed and affirming healthcare is...
Mar
4
2020
Ceremony: A place for gender, sexuality and indigeneity
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Ceremony plays a vital role in Native communities. Yet, barriers regarding gender or sexuality exclude community members from being able...
Mar
3
2020
Lecture on Native American literature by Michael Kelly (CCHS/University Libraries/CNAIR)
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Joint CCHS/University Libraries annual Lecture on the History of the Book—with the collaboration of CNAIR (Center for Native American and...
Feb
18
2020
Open the Door: Memory, Mourning, and the Ancestor as Foundation - M. Carmen Lane and Michael Rakowitz
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Open The Door: Memory, Mourning and The Ancestor As Foundation Click here for EventBrite link. Click here for Facebook event. February 18, 2020...
Feb
18
2020
Food Sovereignty and the Oneida White Corn Project
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
CNAIR Winter Keynote Food Sovereignty and the Oneida White Corn Project with Becky M. Webster and Laura Manthe from the Oneida...
Feb
6
2020
More to say: Tribal voices in the 2020 election.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Lecture given by Mark Trahant, Editor of Indian Country Today and NAJA/Medill Milestone Achievement Award receipient. Trahant, a member of the...
Feb
6
2020
"Reanimation, Metamorphosis, Kinship: New Archives of Romanticism" - A Roundtable Discussion
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
PROVINCIALIZING ROMANTICISM: A Yearlong Series at Northwestern "Reanimation, Metamorphosis, Kinship: New Archives of Romanticism" A roundtable on Black and Indigenous literatures of...
Jan
29
2020
IPR/CNAIR Joint Seminar: B. Redbird (Sociology) - What Drives Native American Poverty?
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
"What Drives Native American Poverty?" by Beth Redbird, Assistant Professor of Sociology; IPR Fellow; and CNAIR Fellow (2019-20) Reception following. IPR and Center...
Jan
16
2020
Department of Sociology Colloquium: Carolyn Liebler, University of Minnesota
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Professor Carolyn Liebler presents: Counting America's First Peoples
Dec
5
2019
Harvest Indigenous Discussions
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join MSA for our monthly dinner and discussion series on topics important to Indian Country and the Northwestern Native and...
Nov
26
2019
Campus Nature Walk
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Join us once a week for a campus walk led by a Northwestern community member. These walks will aid in...
Nov
25
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Nov
22
2019
NAHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bring your lunch and creative energy and join us for weekly craft circles. Each week, a member of the Northwestern...
Nov
20
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Nov
19
2019
NAHM: Campus Nature Walk
9:00 AM - 9:45 PM
Join us once a week for a campus walk led by a Northwestern community member. These walks will aid in...
Nov
18
2019
Jean O'Brien and Thomas Stubblefield: Monuments of Omission—Erasure in the Memory Work of Indigenous Cultures and Contemporary Media
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Fall keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute's Memorializing Dialogue: Monuments of Omission: Erasure in the Memory Work of Indigenous Cultures and Contemporary...
Nov
16
2019
Sand Creek Commemoration
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
In the spirit of healing, the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) has invited representative descendants of the Northern...
Nov
15
2019
NAHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bring your lunch and creative energy and join us for weekly craft circles. Each week, a member of the Northwestern...
Nov
14
2019
Harvest Indigenous Discussions
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Join MSA for our monthly dinner and discussion series on topics important to Indian Country and the Northwestern Native and...
Nov
13
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Nov
12
2019
Campus Nature Walk
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Join us once a week for a campus walk led by a Northwestern community member. These walks will aid in...
Nov
8
2019
NAHM: Craft Circle
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Bring your lunch and creative energy and join us for weekly craft circles. Each week, a member of the Northwestern...
Nov
7
2019
Lunch and Learn: IRRPP Report on Native American Chicagoans
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Join us for a discussion about the Adversity and Resiliency for Chicago’s First: The State of Racial Justice for American...
Nov
5
2019
Postcard to the 7th Generation
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
What are you doing to prepare the world for future generations? It is common among some Native Americans to consider...
Nov
4
2019
Smudging Ceremony
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Smudging is the practice of burning sage and/or other medicines for cleansing, purifying and healing purposes. Join us once a...
Oct
31
2019
Indigenous Lecture & Writing Series
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Thursday, October 31, 2019 1:00 - 2:30 PM Northwestern University Rebecca Crown Center- Hardin Hall 633 Clark St- West Tower, Evanston Please join us for...
Oct
25
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day Two)
9:00 AM - 4:15 PM
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
24
2019
Archaeology and Its Avatars: Andean Cultures and Histories Symposium (Day One)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
What meanings has archaeology assumed in cultural and critical theory? What has been its role as a metaphor and also...
Oct
17
2019
Dylan AT Miner: This Land is Always
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This Land is Always Co-presented with Art History, the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University Native American and...
Oct
14
2019
Indigenous Tour of Northwestern
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day (October 14, 2019) by learning about Native people, places, and initiatives that connect to Northwestern University:...
Sep
27
2019
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Back Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Come meet new students, faculty, and staff and hear about upcoming initiatives for the year. Lunch and giveaways.
Sep
16
2019
Native & Indigenous Family Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
A welcome reception for Native & Indigenous Families.
May
17
2019
CNAIR's 1st Annual Research Symposium
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research is proud to announce it’s first annual research symposium. The symposium will...
May
14
2019
Layli Long Soldier - 2019 Spring Writers' Festival Reading
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Layli Long Soldier earned a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA with honors from Bard...
May
13
2019
Birds & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Each year thousands of migratory birds travel to & through Chicago along the coast of Lake Michigan. During Spring migration,...
May
6
2019
Re/mapping Indigenous and Afro-descendent Geographies in the Americas: A Conversation about Collaborative Cartography
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Re/mapping Indigenous and Afro-descendent Geographies in the Americas: A Conversation about Collaborative Cartography Panel discussion with: Andrew Britt, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in...
Apr
23
2019
Elizabeth Hoover - Defining and Enacting Food Sovereignty Through Native American Farming and Gardening Projects
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Click here for Facebook event. This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research as part of...
Apr
11
2019
Kantrowitz lecture on indigenous Civil War era history (CCHS)
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Stephen KANTROWITZ (University of Wisconsin), author of More than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic (2013) on...
Apr
4
2019
Digital Reporting in Indigenous Communities
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Northwestern University community is invited to an open forum panel discussion that will prepare journalists for working in Indigenous...
Mar
11
2019
Native Politics
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
A conversation facilitated by Daviree Velazquez Phillip and Aaron Golding to celebrate Rep. Deb Haaland, Rep. Sharice Davids, Gertrude Bonnin,...
Feb
27
2019
Walking as Witness
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
JeeYeun Lee uses performance, research, and socially engaged art to bring our attention to the ways that histories of place...
Feb
15
2019
Panel on Native Activism and Art in Chicago
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Panel on Native Activism and Art in Chicago Native Chicago Art & Activism from Carlos Montezuma to Susan PowerA Discussion with...
Feb
13
2019
Collectors and Researchers: The Library & Indigenous Studies Explorations
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This showcase and reception will highlight librarians’ research efforts that have recently explored topics in indigenous studies. It will also...
Feb
8
2019
Béture Collective: Kayapó Filmmaking in the Amazon With Simone Giovine and Bepkadjoiti Kayapó
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Béture Collective: Kayapó Filmmaking in the AmazonWith Simone Giovine and Bepkadjoiti Kayapó Simone Giovine (Filmmaker and co-founder of the Kayapó...
Dec
7
2018
Native Literature and Arts Holiday Celebration with Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. Author of Sacred Smokes
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Join us for the Native Literature and Arts Holiday Celebration, which will take place on Friday, December 7, 2018, from...
Dec
1
2018
Artist Talk with Levi Rickert: Standing Rock: Photographs of an Indigenous Movement
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Hosted by the Evanston Library Saturday, December 1st @ 3 pm Falcon Room, Evanston Public Library Standing Rock: Photographs of an Indigenous...
Nov
29
2018
Sovereignty Symposium
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Sovereignty SymposiumCo-hosted with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities’ Dialogues on Security...
Nov
2
2018
"Resistance and Resilience in the Native Northeast: New Approaches to Memory, History-Making, and Decolonization" - with Christine DeLucia (Williams College)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Christine DeLucia is an assistant professor of History at Williams College and the author of, Memory Lands: King Philip’s War...
Oct
8
2018
Indigenous Peoples' Day Film Screening and Discussion
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Center for Native American and Indigenous Research will be hosting the screening of the film The Eagle and The...
Sep
28
2018
Native American and Indigenous Welcome Back Reception
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Come meet new faculty, staff and students and hear about upcoming initiatives for the new academic year! Lunch Giveaways
May
24
2018
“The Story of Act 31: How Native History Came to Wisconsin Classrooms” with J P Leary (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
J P Leary is an associate professor of humanities, First Nations studies, and history at the University of Wisconsin– Green...
May
15
2018
"Instead of Redface: from the Stage to the Supreme Court" with Mary Kathryn Nagle
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the...
May
6
2018
Native American and Indigenous Community Dinner
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join us for our annual event celebrating the accomplishments of Northwestern students, faculty, and staff around Native American and Indigenous...
May
5
2018
CAICC Urban Native Education Conference
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
THEME: Identity, Kinship, and Belonging This conference will facilitate the exchange of strategies, tools an research among Native American education in...
May
4
2018
Pacific Island Studies Now Symposium
8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Featuring: Vicente Diaz (Univ of Minnesota), Christina DeLisle (Univ. of Minnesota), and Hokulani Aikau (Univ. of Utah). Northwestern scholars include:...
Apr
17
2018
"Is There Justice in the Courts of the Conqueror? Maybe - the Case of the United States and Native Americans" - Fred Hoxie
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor Emeritus of History, Law, and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign....
Mar
9
2018
Kayapó Filmmakers in a Digital Age: Rights, Conservation and Heritage
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Film screening with Q & A with film makers Pat-i Kayapó is a filmmaker from the Kayapó village of A’ukre. He...
Feb
23
2018
"This Land is Your Land? Indigenous Autonomy and Governance" with Stacy Leeds
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Colloquium of Indigeneity and Native American Studies (CINAS) is proud to announce: This Land is Your Land? Indigenous Autonomy and...
Feb
20
2018
American Quarterly Publishing Workshop
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Presented by Vernadette Gonzalez, Honors Program Director, Assoc. Professor of American Studies, University of Hawai'i, Manoa. Associate Editor of American...
Jan
22
2018
Anthro and CNAIR Colloquium: Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, Chip Colwell (Denver Museum) and William Quackenbush (Ho-Chunk Nation)
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Talk: Chip Colwell, Senior Curator of Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature & ScienceFeatured Respondent: William Quackenbush, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer,...
Jan
17
2018
Moore Lecture: Natalie Diaz
5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Natalie Diaz was born in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California. She is Mojave and an enrolled member...
Nov
29
2017
Indigenous Artists in Collaboration: A Conversation
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Join the Block Museum for a conversation with four contemporary Native women artists exploring collaborative practices that unite artists, community...
Nov
16
2017
Heid E. Erdrich Reading: Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Heid E. Erdrich is a poet, writer, and filmmaker. She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently...
Nov
15
2017
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe - Benjamin Madley
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley uncovers the full extent of...
Nov
3
2017
YoNasDa Lonewolf
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Come meet Queen YoNasDa (Black and Oglala Lakota) as she shares how her identity intersects with her involvement in activism...
Nov
1
2017
Cultural Survival and Land Dispossession: A Photographic Essay on The Sioux and the Embera Peoples of North and South America
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
The Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) are proud to...
Oct
31
2017
“Returning the Gift, Singing the Trans-Indigenous, and the Making of Global Indigenous Studies.” - Chad Allen
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Chad Allen from the University of Washington, will present “Returning the Gift, Singing the Trans-Indigenous, and the Making of Global...
Oct
31
2017
Workshop on Indigenous Poetry and Poetics - Chad Allen
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Chad Allen from the University of Washington, will host a workshop on Indigenous Poetry and Poetics. Please contact the Kelly...
Oct
30
2017
Workshop on Academic Publishing - Chad Allen
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Chad Allen from the University of Washington, will host a workshop on academic publishing. Co-presented by Center for Native American and...
Oct
17
2017
“Power Lines: How the Navajo Nation’s Energy Built the Sunbelt” - Andrew Needham
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Andrew Needham from New York University, will present “Power Lines: How the Navajo Nation’s Energy Built the Sunbelt.”
Oct
12
2017
Life Is What You Make It: A Concert & Conversation with Peter Buffett
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Peter Buffett is an Emmy Award–winning musician, composer, philanthropist, and author. He has received critical acclaim for his Native American-inspired...
Oct
9
2017
Indigenous Peoples' Day
All day
Northwestern University is co-sponsoring events for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, October 9th, along with Evanston’s Mitchell Museum of the American Indian...
Oct
6
2017
Global Indigenous Studies Working Group (Buffett Institute)
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The Global Indigenous Studies Working Group is an interdisciplinary group that shares an interest in studying and engaging Indigenous peoples...
Sep
28
2017
Making Relations in the "House of Difference" - Lisa Hall
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lisa Hall from Wells College, will present "Making Relations in the House of Difference." Co-presented by Center for Native American and Indigenous...
Jun
1
2017
Chicago Native American Oral History Project Reception
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
The D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian & Indigenous Studies will host a public reception to honor Chicago-area Native Americans...
May
11
2017
Native American Urban Mental Health Panel
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The majority of Native Americans live in urban areas and are one of the most medically underserved communities. Panelists include...
May
7
2017
The 3rd Annual Native American and Indigenous Community Dinner
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Native American Community Dinner is an end of the year gathering where we recognize the work that has been...
Apr
26
2017
Reparation in the Native American and Japanese American Context - Panel Discussion
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Artist Kristine Aono, whose work is featured in the Block Museum of Art's exhibition, If You Remember, I'll Remember, will...
Apr
22
2017
Earth Day Water Talks
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Learn about water and the role it plays in our lives. From holding cultural and spiritual importance to being the...
Apr
22
2017
Earth Day at Northwestern: Water Research & Indigenous Science
1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Learn about water and the roles it plays in our lives. From holding cultural and spiritual importance to being the...
Apr
20
2017
Marie Watt: Sewing Community
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
This winter, community members from Northwestern, Evanston, and beyond joined together with artist Marie Watt to lend their hands to...
Apr
18
2017
Guest Speaker: We Come to Witness: Art as Politics for Indigenous Rights in Canada
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Please join us for a talk on "We Come to Witness: Art as Politics for Indigenous Rights in Canada" by...
Apr
12
2017
Josie Saldaña, Indian Given: Adjudicating Shades of Brown in the US Southwest
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
María Josefina Saldaña Portillo is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Indian Given: Racial Geographies...
Apr
6
2017
Mele Murals - Screening and Q&A with Tadashi Nakamura
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Mele Murals is a documentary about the transformative power of art through the unlikely union of graffiti and ancient Hawaiian...
Apr
5
2017
Unthinkable Indians: Garcilaso, Guaman Poma and the Beginnings of Critical Race Theory
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Prof. Gonzalo Lamana (University of Pittsburgh) offers an alternative interpretation of how the two most important Amerindian colonial thinkers conceived...
Apr
1
2017
CAICC Urban American Indian Education Conference
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Urban American Indian Education: Past, Present and Future This conference will facilitate the exchange of strategies, tools and research among Native...
Mar
31
2017
Toni Jensen: Cowboyistan: The Social Costs of Fracking
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Toni Jensen (Metis; English/University of Arkansas), author of the short story collection From the Hilltop, published through the Native Storiers...
Mar
9
2017
Navajo Rock Talk & Video Show: Stories of Environmental Justice (Chicago)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
RSVP Appreciated Highlighting work by scientist Tommy Rock & filmmaker Jeff Spitz. This event will take place twice: March 8 (in...
Mar
8
2017
Navajo Rock Talk & Video Show: Stories of Environmental Justice (Evanston)
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
RSVP Appreciated Highlighting work by scientist Tommy Rock & filmmaker Jeff Spitz. This event will take place twice: March 8 (in...
Mar
3
2017
“The Transformative Potential of Indigenous Rights and Politics” with Dr. Sheryl Lightfoot
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
In this talk, Dr. Lightfoot will discuss how Indigenous peoples’ rights and Indigenous rights movements represent an important and often...
Feb
23
2017
Environmental Resource Panel & Reception
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Featuring Arlinda Locklear and Heather Kendall-Miller. From the Dakota Access Pipeline to the expansion of crude oil shipping in Gray’s Harbor...
Feb
23
2017
Environmental Law Lunch Panel
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Come and learn from Arlinda Locklear (Lumbee) and Heather Kendall-Miller (Athabascan).Their experience includes the historic Katie John litigation ensuring subsistence...
Feb
21
2017
Water Politics: From Standing Rock to Palestine
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Join the Native American and Indigenous Students Alliance and Students for Justice in Palestine for a discussion with Krystal Two...
Feb
15
2017
Painting Workshop with Steven Paul Judd
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Steven Paul Judd is a Kiowa and Choctaw filmmaker, writer, and painter. He is a master at combining Native experiences...
Feb
14
2017
Visiting Artist Lecture: Duane Linklater
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Duane Linklater is Omaskêko Cree, from Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario and is currently based in North Bay,...
Feb
8
2017
Equity Sewing Circle with Artist Marie Watt
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Seneca artist Marie Watt, whose work is featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Block Museum, makes many of her...
Feb
7
2017
NoDAPL and the Future of Indigenous Organizing
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Since the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe set up camp in resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), it has been...
Feb
4
2017
Opening Day: If You Remember, I'll Remember - Sewing Kick-Off
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Exhibition Sewing Kick-Off, 10:00am–12:00pm The exhibition If You Remember, I’ll Remember is an invitation to think about the present while reflecting...
Feb
2
2017
Journey Through an Indigenous Archive – Robert Sullivan
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
In Aotearoa New Zealand, urbanisation and colonisation have altered traditional access to Mātauranga Māori knowledge, which is now handed down...
Jan
30
2017
SHC Klopsteg Lecture: KELLY WISECUP
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
KELLY WISECUP: English, Northwestern University "Indigenizing Botany: Colonial Science and Mohegan Medicine in Eighteenth-Century North America" Description: Colony botany and colonial expansion...
Jan
26
2017
Matika Wilbur: 19 Lessons from Indian Roads
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Since 2012, Swinomish and Tulalip photographer Matika Wilbur has been seeking to photograph the citizens of every federally recognized tribe...
Dec
1
2016
Miranda Johnson: An Indigenous Commonwealth? Rights, Courts, and the Dialogics of Settler Colonialism
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
An Indigenous Commonwealth? Rights, Courts, and the Dialogics of Settler Colonialism Dr. Johnson's work engages questions of indigenous historical agency, identity,...
Nov
21
2016
Opening Reception of 'Walking through Sand Creek', Norris Galleria
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
The Northwestern Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance curated 'Walking through Sand Creek' for the Norris Galleria on the ground...
Nov
19
2016
Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Join NAISA and the Chicago community in a reception honoring the Cheyenne and Arapaho lives lost on November 29, 1864.
Nov
18
2016
Storytelling for Healing Workshop
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This is an event designed to precede the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration on Nov. 19 at 12:00pm in the Guild...
Nov
17
2016
Protect the Sacred: An Evaluation of Domestic Violence and Human Trafficking among Indigenous Populations
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
This event will feature Dr. Jessica Ryan of American Indian Health Service Chicago and is a chance to learn more...
Nov
16
2016
Two-Spirit Workshop with Ty Defoe: Return to the Circle
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Learn about the significance of Native American & Indigenous two-spirit identity as it relates to gender through a series of...
Nov
11
2016
UIC Native American Veteran's Powwow
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The annual Native American Student Organization at UIC powwow. Free and open to everyone!
Nov
10
2016
Winona LaDuke, The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
The D’Arcy McNickle Distinguished Lecture will honor American Indian author, environmental activist, and former U.S. vice presidential nominee, Winona LaDuke...
Nov
9
2016
Native American & Indigenous Art Gallery Viewing
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
View a variety of Native American and Indigenous artwork around campus compiled in one place. Refreshments will be served!
Nov
7
2016
First Nations Film and Video Festival
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
First Nations Film and Video Festival, Inc. is a grassroots Native American film festival whose mission is showcasing works produced...
Nov
2
2016
Annual Montezuma Lecture at Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
This year ’s Montezuma Lecture will honor Susan Shown Harjo. Harjo is the founding president of The Morning Star Institute...
Nov
2
2016
UIC Indigenous Art Collective of Chicago Opening Reception
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Featuring artists Chris Pappan, Tomás Karmelo Amaya, Monica Rickert-Bolter, Santiago X, Sings in the Timber, Debra Yepa-Pappan. Sponsored by the...
Oct
27
2016
Historical Debts: Trauma, Memory, and Decolonization Panel
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This interdisciplinary panel brings together scholars whose work raises questions of memory and memorialization in contexts of colonialism to ask...
Oct
25
2016
“Copyright, Knowledge and Intercultural Translation Practices: Science and Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Brazil”
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
DIEGO SOARES DA SILVEIRA is a professor at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Uberlândia. Between...
Oct
23
2016
Indigenous Science Days
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Indigenous Science Days is a community program that focus on culturally based science. The activities take place at multiple places...
Oct
10
2016
Indigenous Peoples' Day Concert
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
A variety of programming will occur on Indigenous Peoples' Day, inlcuding a concert by Scatter Their Own. Scatter Their Own...
Oct
10
2016
#NODAPL Rally
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
This is part of the the Indigenous Peoples' Day programming at Northwestern University. Students from the Native American and Indigenous...
Oct
10
2016
Indigenous Peoples' Day Panel
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Learn about the history, cultures & political issues of Indigenous Peoples throughout North American. Featuring Scotti Clifford, musician and educator,...
Oct
1
2016
Indians in the Archive Symposium
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
“Indians in the Archive: Images of the Midwest” will feature speakers including Dave Beck (Montana); Rosalyn LaPier (Montana); Philip Round...
Sep
23
2016
American Indian Day - Storytelling Around Water
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Against the backdrop of beautiful Lake Michigan, listen to traditional Native American tales centering on water and its significance to...
Sep
23
2016
Native American First Year Student Welcome
12:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Join MSA in welcoming incoming Native American first year and transfer students to the Northwestern community. Refreshments & Giveaways!
Sep
18
2016
Chicago Annual Powwow Trip
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Hosted by the American Indian Center of Chicago, the Chicago Annual Powwow is a celebration of Native culture from the...